Power is supposed to be so corrupt. I don’t think it’s so much corrupt, in the usual sense of the word, as stupid and unrealistic. The more power a person has, the further he gets from reality.

Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) American-Canadian journalist, author, urban theorist, activist

“Social Uses of Power,” panel discussion, New School for Social Research, New York (1965-11-15)
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Collected in Elizabeth Janeway, ed., The Writer's World (1969). See Acton.